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We need to start making brainstorming decisions. The deadline for brainstorming is Friday. So, I have made up a victim, setting, half-a-motive, and weapon. Feel free to stop me if you have another idea. We can tweak it as much as needed.

Backstory: Ison Crow is the Mayor of [Placeholder Town. Perhaps E-ville]. He invites the elite of the town to a masquerade murder mystery game. It is a party where everyone comes in character, someone “dies”, and the characters have to solve who did it. (I have been to a couple of these and they are SUPER fun.) In this case, the setting is a masquerade, so everyone comes in costume. Sophia Sweet, Toby Sweet’s sister, is a shy aspiring actress. Sophia is practically the only person in town who doesn’t have a scandal in the back of her closet, and that is because she is too busy reading, acting, and volunteering to do anything else. She plays a busybody and throws herself into the role, annoying everyone at the party with her questions that sometimes stray too close to home. It’s clear that the character she plays is the one who will die—it’s always the one that has something against every character so there are the most suspects possible.

Murder: When it is time for Sophia to “die”, she disappears, and her body is found actually dead. Luckily Detective David Jones was also attending the party, and he is on the case. She was killed by a decorative knife. Ison Crow has several of those placed around the house as decoration, and it is not immediately clear which one is missing. A witness saw someone in a white mask leave that area soon before Sophia was found, but three guests have a white mask, and one of the masks has gone missing.

Solution: Sophia was in fact killed by the person who lost their white mask. It got blood on it, so they threw it away and pretended they lost it. Sophia’s character got too nosy and accidentally genuinely discovered a secret someone would kill to protect.

Mysteries are about twists but given that we only have 2500 words, I think we only have time for one twist, maybe two, twists. Any thoughts? Is it too complicated? We can discuss it more on Hangouts, the doc, or even this thread.

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